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SDDC has extended the rate filing deadline to December 14. Please go to their website http://www.sddc.army.mil/sddc/Content/Pub/35430/WRCNDS06O.pdf… for all of the changes to the solicitation.

SDDC has posted an updated spreadsheet, listing items which now require pre-approval. None of the items have changed, but they have added this informational paragraph to the spreadsheet:

It has been brought to SDDC’s attention clarification is needed for the current pre-approvals. Therefore we have posted the most current list on the SDDC website. Although, this represents the most current list, CWA has not been updated to reflect any changes from the previous list. This will not affect the …

SDDC has posted a message… on their website concerning updates on the effects of Hurricane Wilma and the “Act of God” declaration, as it relates to Hurricane Katrina.

We have received notice that the Phase I TSP call scheduled for next Tuesday has been cancelled due to its proximity to Thanksgiving.…

As you can tell from the most recent posts, the last few days have seen many problems with the technical systems involved in Phase I of Families First. At different times over the past 24 hours, both CWA and PowerTrack have been inaccessible. Although both are up and running now (knock on wood), these problems have delayed us from performing the CWA/PowerTrack follow-up that is necessary to keep invoices moving through the system. We will be working diligently to catch…

We just received a message from the USBank Help Desk informing us that PowerTrack is now up and running again. You can reach the login page for PowerTrack here

This morning, USBank is experiencing problems with their online PowerTrack
system. If you try to reach the login page, you will instead receive a “Server
Error in ‘/Powertrack’ Application”.
In talking with the Help Desk, they
assure us that this is a severity 1 issue, and their technical people are
working …

Received just now from SDDC:

The programmers identified three issues that caused you the problems you experience this morning. We are working to correct them as quickly as possible. We will continue to work to this matter and I do expect you to realize improvement in system performance and processing of your invoices by tomorrow (Wednesday) morning.
Let us know, by contacting our CWA Help Desk, if you have do not see improvements. Thanks again for your patience.
Ethel Anderson…

After noticing a marked decline in response to CWA, we submitted a Help Desk Ticket to the CWA Help Desk this morning. Shortly thereafter, we received the following information from Ethel Anderson at SDDC:

CWA is experiencing major difficulties as we speak as a result of the 3.7.1 release last week. I have the developers meeting at this moment to determine our next step in getting the current issues (slowness, java errors, etc.) resolved.
This problem is not site specific …

SDDC has created a Website Task Force with the goal of making the SDDC website more user friendly, a goal that I know many TSP’s whole-heartedly endorse. I will be one of three industry representatives on the task force, along with Tim Helenthal of National Van Lines and Georgia Angell of Dell Forwarding. Our first meeting is scheduled for December 6th at the SDDC offices in Alexandria, VA. If you have some specific suggestions or area of concerns with the…

As of today, November 10, 2005:
113,853 Shipments are booked in CWA
90,568 invoices in Payment Settled for $ 256,161,184.80
Average Payment Times for the week: 10.45
Average Payment Time overall: 10.89…